Gillian Anderson has been appointed development assistant to the Douglas Development Partnership.

Mrs Anderson, formerly PA to the managing director of HSBC Security Services, will be supporting development manager Chris Pycroft and looking after the day-to-day operation of the partnership’s town centre management projects.

Her duries will include the Shopwatch initiative as well as licensing street entertainers and pavement cafes on behalf of Douglas Borough Council.

Mrs Anderson will also be helping Mr Pycroft as he oversees the Douglas town centre regeneration scheme in partnership with the Douglas local regeneration committee.

Chris Pycroft says Mrs Andersons administrative and business skills will prove invaluable at a time when the Partnership's involvement in the town centre regeneration scheme, and its work with an increasingly wide range of private and public sector bodies, are gathering pace.